Backup: Collateral Damage on the Journey to the Cloud
Last week I introduced you to SnapProtect, our unified business continuance suite that leverages NetApp’s hardware-accelerated data protection capabilities to enhance and simplify business continuance processes. I believe the best way to share all of the goodness we have to offer with SnapProtect is to begin by reviewing the current state of business continuance. With […]
Voting for VMworld 2011 Sessions Ends Today
Just a gentle reminder that today is the last day to cast your votes for the break out sessions presented at VMworld 2011. The list of NetApp-related sessions is here. My comments on some of the multi-storage vendor panel sessions is here. Why are you reading this line, Go Vote!
New vSphere 4.1 Report: Measuring SAN & NAS Performance
NetApp and VMware performance engineering have completed a new storage performance technical report, TR-3916. This new report provides the relative I/O performance available from SAN and NAS storage protocols with vSphere 4.1 and a NetApp FAS array. The testing in the new TR-3916 is a leap forward from our previous reports as it includes results […]
VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts
Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I believe part of the reason these two sessions were so highly rated was that they both presented the role and future direction of storage in a shared […]
Introducing FlexPod for VMware: Flexible IT
Today, organizations understand the financial and operational benefits of moving to a shared cloud-based infrastructure. Both enterprises and service providers require validated, cost-effective, virtualized cloud solutions. To meet this need, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have created FlexPod – a flexible architecture packaged and designed to accelerate enterprises’ IT transformation to a cloud-based infrastructure.